India, July 4 -- The Canadian stock market ended flat on Friday, amid uncertainty on US-Canada trade deal even as July 9 deadline set by the US President for tariff agreement is fast approaching.
The benchmark S&P/TSX Composite Index opened slightly down and dropped further, but recovered to touch a new record high at 27,076.75 past noon. The index eventually ended the session with a small gain of 1.90 points or 0.01% at 27,036.16. The benchmark gained about 1.3% in the week.
Data released by S&P Global revealed that the Canada Composite PMI fell to 44.0 in June from 45.5 in May, indicating seventh consecutive monthly contraction in private sector businesses. Both the manufacturing (45.6 versus 46.1) and services (44.3 versus 45.6) sector...